Cool News
WonderCon: Quint on the footage and panels from FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL and WANTED! Pics! News! Info galore!
SPOILER ALERT !!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with my first ever report from WonderCon.
Today was a fun, full day. It started off with an early morning run to Emeryville that had me exploring the Pixar grounds and seeing the first 35 minutes of WALL-E… And… It was great, but I can’t say any more than that now. Hopefully the embargo will be lifted soon and I can spill my copious guts.
I got back with just enough time to conduct a hilarious interview with 7 (count ‘em 7) of the cast and crew from FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL. That one will hit you as soon as I can force Muldoon to transcribe it. I got an offer for a tongue-kiss from one of the cast members, but you’ll have to wait until the full interview before you find out if it was from Kristen Bell, Mila Kunis, Jack McBrayer, Jason Segel or Russell Brand. Although, I will say that some of Kristen Bell’s first words to me were “You’re going to pop the cherry.” Lordamercy!!!
Had half an hour with those guys and that left with me just enough time to head to the convention center, pick up my badge, grab a $9 sandwich (I hadn’t eaten anything in about 24 hours at that point) and head into Hall A for the one interesting studio panel for today, Universal’s panel on FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL and WANTED.
FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL
They showed a 6 minute clip that included everything from the trailer, plus extra bits, add-ons if you will. It’s like they cut in the full scenes of many of the moments glimpsed in the trailer.
There’s a bit where the lead, Jason Segel, is on the phone with Bill Hader who is telling him he needs to get out and meet some people. Segel says there’s only a few guys he’s met in Hawaii… and they’re weird.
We see a few, including one bit with the choice phrase from the lips of Paul Rudd as he and Segel scope out Segel’s ex, Sarah Marshall (played by Kristen Bell)… “I like her hair. I wonder if the carpet matches the pubes.”
We meet Jack McBrayer’s character for the first time. If you’re like me, then you’ll be pleased as punch to see McBrayer turn up in this flick and he was awesome. He plays a newlywed… an uptight newlywed whose bride is starting to show some kink and freaking his uptight ass out. “The wife wants me to do… certain things that I find… inappropriate.” Then we see him in bed with his wife as she ducks under the covers. He scolds her like you’d scold a dog who lifts his leg on your 360.
“No! NO! God put our mouths on our head for a reason! No!”
Then we’re back in the bar with McBrayer and Segel as he explains. “Let’s just say if God was a city planner he would not put a playground next to a sewage system.”
Probably the most added stuff was the budding romance between Segel and Mila Kunis, an employee of the Hawaiian hotel that serves as the setting for this flick.
The biggest moment is the lead up to the moment in the trailer when she jumps off the cliff. Here he leans in for a kiss and she turns and jumps off. Segel screams and runs around frantically. “Oh, God! I made her kill herself!”
She calls up from the water, “Are you going to jump or what?” “No!” he screams back. “Oh, come on, Peter. I can see your vagina from here!” “Um… I mean… I’ll jump…” and then we get the jump, trip, caught in vines moment from the trailer.
We get another moment with Paul Rudd out on the ocean, both him and Segel sitting on surfboards. “When life gives you lemons, I say fuck the lemons and bail!” Then the surf crash from the trailer and coral in the leg bit (except we actually see it lodged in there here).
Then it wraps up with a few more quick bits… McBrayer saying when they combine the sex and the violence… he likes it, a big Hawaiian dude standing over Segel, naked in bed. Segel screams and pulls the blanket up, rustling a bunch of used Kleenex. The big Hawaaian dude says, “Are those sad tissues… or happy tissues?” Russell Brand saying he can’t have a drink in a restaurant because if he does he’ll end up “rimming the waiters just to get my hands on a rock.” A gangsta with an obsession with accepts a fish-naming challenge from McBrayer and succeeds with flying colors, saying something in I couldn’t even begin to spell for you and following that up with a “booya, yeaaahh, bitch!”
And then a little bit of Segel singing a Romanian Dracula romance song he wrote.
Really funny stuff. Then the cast took the stage. We had Nick Stoller come out and, before bringing out the cast, he announced that he had the entire IRON MAN film for us. The crowd cheered and laughed, then he brought out the cast. Jason Segel, Kristen Bell, Mila Kunis, Russell Brand, Jack McBrayer and Shauna Robertson.
Like usual, I’ll go over some bullet-hits of the panel and post some purty pics along the way:
- Segel has a lot of nude scenes in the movie and he spent most of his time during these scenes actually naked. There was a cock sock, but it was flesh-colored and he said when he wore it he was “as smooth as a Ken doll,” he almost preferred it flopping around.
- Also, Shauna Robertson apparently hates Segel’s nipples and kept trying to hide them during the course of the movie… behind a blanket, whathaveyou.
- Russell Brand, a well known UK comedian, was hysterical. He’d throw out random tangets… answers to questions like “What was your most difficult part of making this movie,” would be “There was a surfer, a surfing instructor who was so full of sexual charisma, I turned a little gay…” then he’d wait for the audience’s laughter to die away and add, “Mike, his name was.” He’s the one sitting next to Mila.
- Jack McBrayer was forced to reveal a dirty secret. “Tell them what’s in your backpack,” director Nick Stroll said. McBrayer grinned sheepishly and said he has a tendency to steal free food and his backpack was filled with Mountain Dew and Bottled Water. Everybody in the audience was dying of laughter, then he dropped, “Food is expensive, y’all!” Slayed ‘em, but not as much as…
- McBrayer’s second audience killing line. Someone asked him if anyone ever mentioned to him that he looks like a young Tom Cruise. McBrayer said, “Tom Cruise has filed a restraining order against me… but Katie’s already pregnant again, y’all!” God, I wish I got that on tape. It was one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard… his delivery and the whole thing coming so far out of left field… that dude has a great voice for comedy… his accent in 30 ROCK is really him. Amazing.
- Brand described Apatow’s group as “underlings, his sperm, his ejaculation.” I don’t know why, but it was funny.
- Kristen Bell was asked about a return to VERONICA MARS and she said that nothing’s going yet, but she’s still good friends with everyone involved and there’s talk of a movie, but if it happens it has to happen soon, “before we’re geriatric.”
That’s about all I can remember from the panel. The interview we did is great. I’ll get that one out to you as soon as I can.
WANTED
Timur Bekmambetov recorded a video to introduce an extended action sequence from the movie. The only real bit of useful information gleaned from the footage was that they are going to do “additional photography” on the film soon and that he’s currently scoring the film with Danny Elfman.
The footage:
Starts mid-action as Anjelina Jolie holds a frightened James McAvoy by the collar in a crowded supermarket. Down at the other end of the aisle is a bald assassin trying to take them out. Jolie whips her folding gun monitor thing (from the trailer) around one side, then the other, finally spotting him. He fires, and we follow the bullet as it rips through cereal boxes and finally through the wood shelving they’re using for cover, just over McAvoy’s head.
He freaks out, breaks free of Jolie’s grip and, in a panic, runs down the aisle… toward the assassin. The assassin sees him and brings his gun up (in slow motion of course) for the kill shot. Jolie can’t get to them in time so she shoots at a propane tank on the wall in between them, blowing it up in a huge fireball that gives McAvoy time to duck out of the store.
The assassin chases him out. McAvoy runs down the parking lot and the baldy steals a pet food truck (Nibblers is written on the side with big cartoony dogs… and the truck’s dash is covered with dog bobble heads) all T-1000 style, throwing its occupant out the door.
He charges down McAvoy when Jolie’s red sports car zooms in. She hits the brakes, skids, throws open the passenger side door and scoops McAvoy up and out of the path of the truck.
Then there’s a huge chase where McAvoy yells “Fuck” over and over again as Jolie shoots behind her, dodges cars, side-swipes cement tunnel surfaces, rear-ends cops (adding to the chase) and the assassins bullets take out the rear windshield.
In this sequence, Jolie pulls guns from everywhere… armrest, visors, in-between seats… at one point, she shoots the front windshield out. McAvoy says, “What are you shooting the car for?!? Are you crazy!?!”
She tells him to take the wheel and she slides out over the hood and fires back at the car. McAvoy isn’t steering well enough, so she just kicks him and pins him to the seat with one high-heel while driving with the other… still leaned out. She shouts for him to hand her more guns… “UNDER THE SEAT!” He pulls out a sawed off shotgun.
She fires back, hits the truck and it looks like they’ll make it when the assassin shoots a bullet around a bus using that trailer bullet-curve thing. It hits their rear tire, nearly putting that little car out of control. Jolie climbs back in and they see a Blues Brothers-esque police roadblock ahead of them.
Jolie looks around for a moment, then speeds up… sparks flying everywhere. Just as she’s about to hit the squad cars, she whips the wheel sideways and in their sideways spin the now rims-only front and rear right tires hit a giant crack in the road, sending them flipping… rolling in the air, over the cops. In slow motion, you see the cops look up in disbelief, the car inches from the tops of their heads.
One shot had a good close shot of a cop as the car sails overhead, the roof spinning in front of his face revealing McAvoy mouthing the words, “I’m sorry!” which we hear in slowed down form.
The car flies over the police blockade and hits a bus, nearly knocking it over. It crunches in and then Jolie hits the gas and it speeds up, over the roof of the bus and over the top, hitting the ground before speeding away, sparks flying everywhere.
It was an incredibly fun sequence. Some of the effects in the chase were unfinished, with some cars looking kinda ridiculous, but even in this unfinished state it was pretty heart-pounding.
McAvoy came out to talk to the audience a bit:
- An audience member asked about how close it sticks to the graphic novel, asking about the addition of superheroes and supervillains. McAvoy responded that there’s not really any of those in the movie, but there is an opening for them… and they might be explored in further films.
- Mark Millar has seen an early cut of the film and he enjoyed it.
- Timur Bekmambetov is a visual director, but is he an actor’s director? “The first thing he said to me, the director, was “We have to always look for the conflict,” and immediately I kinda felt more comfortable with him. As an actor, I’ve always used conflict… external, internal, environmental... to find an energy to create something interesting. Because without conflict it’s not very interesting… So, yeah, I think he is a bit of an actor’s director.”
- STATE OF PLAY – His character from the original, Dan Foster, won’t be in the US remake. Kevin McDonald (who worked with McAvoy on LAST KING OF SCOTLAND) is directing and he offered him the part he originated, but McAvoy looked at the script and said, “He’s not going to survive, is he?” “Do you mean we’ll kill him off?” “No, when you finally get to make the film this character isn’t going to make the cut, is he?” They decided no, he wouldn’t, so that was that.
- He was attracted to it because the main character was a little bit of a loser… “And also there’s a 14 year old boy inside of me that watched LETHAL WEAPON and watched Michael J. Fox in all the BACK TO THE FUTURE movies and even though he’s never really done an action movie he jumped over more things in BACK TO THE FUTURE than Mel Gibson did in all 4 LETHAL WEAPON movies… So, I thought, “This is my chance to get to jump over things!” And I jumped over a bridge at one point in this film, which I’m really pleased about. Michael J. Fox used to jump over the hood of the DeLorean and I jumped over a bridge!”
- STARTER FOR 10 is one of the favorite films he’s ever done. His favorite genre to work in is comedy. But ATONEMENT is the thing he’s most proud of. “And it’s the saddest film you’ll ever see… so, go figure.”
And that was that.
Wow, 6 pages over to presentation and one panel. Tomorrow’s going to kill me… We got panels on GET SMART, 10,000 BC, WALL-E, PRINCE CASPIAN, X-FILES 2, SHUTTER, HAROLD AND KUMAR ESCAPE FROM GUANTANAMO BAY and IRON MAN.
Must get my Rocky super endurance rest! Be back tomorrow with updates on all of those as quick as I can!
-Quint
quint@aintitcool.com
-
+ Expand All
-
You either love him, or loathe him. I personally think he's a comedy genius. He's like Captain Jack Sparrow on crack, which is convenient saying as he's an ex drug addict, but please don't hold that against him, the swine!
-
Seriously he just never shuts the fuck up. Every time i see him i want to punch him. His comedy can be very hit and miss but he's too annoying for me to ignore the miss's.
-
In Geek Love,thats if they ever make it into a film.For some reason everytime I read that book now thats who I picture as arturo.
-
dude.... damn what a hotty
-
I am so jealous that you were in a room with her.
-
wow, guess I should have read the graphic novel.
-
And, if it was Kristen or Mila, did he get it? Or was he just being psyched out? Actresses are all cock-teases, we all know it. And so are most actors. Let's be honest. He said he'd tell us and he didn't.
-
Last night I saw a preview screening of WANTED the highly anticipated follow-up to NIGHTWATCH! Here's my two cents. For the first half it's pure brilliance. The effects, the acting, the pace. No exagerration, possibly the best movie of the decade so far. But then, halfway through - it happens. That thing we all dread. TIME-LAPSE CLOUD FORMATIONS. Well, you can imagine my horror. The movie had been totally ruined for me. It was all I could do not to walk out of the screening in disgust. This was potentially the greatest film ever to be commited on celluloid and then they had to go and screw it up with the Cumuli Nimbus. The director asked me what I thought of the film after the lights went up. I punched him on the nose and walked out the door.
-
Seriously, who else are you going to vote for?What's that you say? He's not running or even declared an affiliation with a party? Who the fuck cares, I'm voting for him anyway.Anyway, never thought I'd see Russell 'Ball Bags' Brand sat next to Jackie out of That 70s Show, but today it has happened.It is a magical moment.
-
Harry, Quint, Anyone who will listen...
Can we please start a new campaign (or possibly a petition) For all movie makers... be it Hollywood, independent film makers, foreign film makers... ALL FILMS MOVIES AND BOOKS... ANY WORKS OF FICTION OR NON FICTION!! EVERYONE EVERYWHERE.... STOP USING THE WORDS "FORGETTING", "CHASING", AND "RAISING" (FOLLOWED BY SOMOENE'S NAME) IN YOUR TITLES OF THINGS!! It was intriguing when Raising Arizona and Chasing Amy (And I can't think of a good movie with the word "Forgetting") came out cause it made the movie sound interesting... NOW IT'S ANNOYING!! PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD CAN WE PLEASE STOP!!! -
Anyone else find Meg Griffin strangely attractive because she has Mila Kunis's voice?No?Just me?
-
Looks like complete shit. ugh *shudders*
-
announce the Vince Vaughn winner?????
-
to ask why they would make a movie (wanted) that has nothing to do with the source material? Im sick of film makers who think they no better than us. If Mar Millar is happy it must have been a big check. Never gonna see this.
-
And what the fuck are time lapse cloud fromations??
-
They started writing the script for it after the first issue was released. That's why the basic plot of "top class assassin is killed, hot female goes to get his son to take his place" is kept, but all the good stuff that made it unique and interesting isn't in it, they just made up everything else after that.
Dunno why they were so eager and couldn't wait for the comic to be finished, i'm guessing it's just normal studio "oh look this millar guy is popular, lots of people are buying his comics, lets slap his name on something" -
*sigh*...wishes I was there. :)
-
Naw man, tell us how you REALLY feel.
-
;)
Here are last night's winners:
Worst Picture: I Know Who Killed Me
Worst Actor: Eddie Murphy. Norbit
Worst Actress (tie): Lindsay Lohan as twin sisters Aubrey and Dakota, I Know Who Killed Me
Worst Supporting Actress AND Supporting Actor: Murphy. Norbit
Worst Screen Couple: Lohan & Lohan. I Know Who Killed Me
Worst Remake/Ripoff: I Know Who Killed Me
Worst Prequel/Sequel: Daddy Day Camp
Worst Director: Chris Siverston, I Know Who Killed Me
Worst Screenplay: Jeffrey Hammond, I Know Who Killed Me
Worst Excuse for a Horror Movie (New Category): I Know Who Killed Me -
when wonder con becomes comic con north, and hollywood decends, you know its true...but mila kunis is still a piece of ass...too bad shes bangin the home alone kid
-
razzies gave no love to friedberg, selzer or epic movie?? what is this world coming too?
-
I can only surmise that nobody involved with the Razzies saw Southland Tales during its stunning one week theater run. It would definitely have swept the Razzies.
-
they own the headlines. keep up the good work grasshoppers.
-
Which makes Meet the Spartans look like There Will Be Milkshakes, er, Blood.
-
Granted the first issue of KICK-ASS hasn't come out yet but the premise of it sounds so awesome that it cannot possibly suck.
-
was that a commentary on what has become of both wondercon and comic con? cuz i dont disagree...while i understand that the hollywood crowd has brought in the bux for the cons to do other things (like put on ape) seems to me that both cons have lost the intimacy that made them special...i dont mind change, but the con organizers have given up way too much to hollywood...
-
you can catch i know who killed me, streaming on line....do it...you will find out why lohan has become a drunken slut...oh, and can somebody explain to me how stephen king allowed jj abrams to buy the rights to the dark tower? hes gonna fuck it up...i just know it
-
...Except both flicks sound like disposable garbage. Both had rat shit awful trailers too.
-
Orlando Bloom. Quint has bastard children in every port he's landed in. We all joke that he's a sailor or "Seaman" - and while he's a portly fellow - he knows how to please and impregnate. I know you think I'm kidding. But it's true. He's into the pink...
-
i think the abrams/dark tower deal was mentioned here and other places a year ago...but since it has been a year and nothing has come from it, i thought the deal was dead...but seems that jj is still working on it...kills me that king turned down darabont, who wanted to do the series, cuz im sure at least the first draft of the script woulda been done by now...with abrams taking on a bunch of other projects, i cant see a dark tower mini series or even a movie coming out anytime in the near future...but maybe that was king's plan all along...maybe he is making sure the dark tower never hits the small or the big screen...here is jj talking bs to a reporter.. http://tinyurl.com/23qvx9
-
thats really what i want to hear about, not another thread in regards another sex comedy based on the ultimate male fantasy...geeky guys with bad or no jobs dont get hot women...unless you are harry and have learned the secrets of the jedi mind trick
-
true fact harry! ;)
-
dunno if it was before or after the FSM panel - http://tinyurl.com/37kc3q. Very diplomatic, she was, about the Fanboys reshooting.
-
well, there goes the heartfelt comedy and straight into apatow slapstick and gross humor....great...oh, and i see from that site that cruise showed up on the set of star trek...guess he doesnt know that the enterprise doesnt really exist, and he was hoping for a lift to visit with xemu
-
http://tinyurl.com/36v8e9 (with director Nicholas Stoller, producer Shauna Robertson, Jack McBrayer and Mila Kunis, followed by individual Q&A's with Brand and Segel).
-
in every way.
-
people always seem so stoked when they announce the "winners" but i think the whole process is a little dumb... beating up on shitty movies everyone already knows is shitty... and doing it in "clever" ways, "what? murphy won for actor AND actress! that's ridonkulous!" and let's face it, the razzies pick one or two movies every year and beat the shit out of them. there are only two movie on that whole fucking list. i don't want to sound like i'm defending those movies because i'm sure they suck (i haven't seen them because i have better shit to do than watch bad movies i know will suck only to go online to complain about it). if i want to know if a movie is good or not, i read review or go to RT and decide from there. just my two pennies...
-
the abortion that is Wanted. And what annoys me the most is that some will walk into it and enjoy it because they're pig-fucking-ignorant to the source material. If I ever make it as a writer, I'm never letting any fucking company buy my works. I'll just get creatively raped like so many before me.
-
in regards to the dark tower...the project is at the first stages of development after a whole year...i dont think its ever gonna get off the ground with abrams at the helm, at least, not if he wants to direct
-
Feb 24, 2008 1:17:09 AM CST
In the next 10 years Kristen Bell is going to end up being eithe
by kirbymanly
...Grace Kelly or the next washed-up Sarah Michelle Gellar. There'll be no inbetween.
-
More later 'cause I'm so damn tired now, but it was an awesome day! Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny, Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz, Roland Emmerich and Camilla Belle, to name a few, were all there and were all very charming and funny! JLA: New Frontier premiered, too! I was too tired to attend the Iron Man panel with Jon Favreau, so Quint, I'm waiting for you to fill me in...(not literally, sweetheart!) Massive crowds, almost too many geeks in one place...it was thrilling! I wish I could go Sunday, but it's too much!
-
McElroy was awesome and the movie looks great. He even answered my question nicely, The first day was great!
Readers Talkback
User Login
Top Talkbacks
- AVENGERS enemy revealed as pink boardgame pieces... You might suffer some form of elation... SPOILERS!!! -- 151 total posts 140 posts
- There's a STAR TREK video game that is going to lead into JJ's STAR TREK 2 apparently... -- 128 total posts 94 posts
- Whitney Houston 1963 - 2012 -- 92 total posts 91 posts
- To Commemorate The 3D Release Of STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE, George Lucas Wants You To Know...Greedo Shoots First!! -- 474 total posts 70 posts
- Here's The Red Band Trailer For Drafthouse Films' THE FP! -- 64 total posts 64 posts
- New JUDGE DREDD post production footage pops up -- 51 total posts 51 posts
- Friday Brings SWEEPS DAY NINE!! Gab Here About Tonight’s FRINGE!! Plus Einstein on TIM, Wiig On PORTLANDIA, MAHER, CLONE, GIFTED, GRIMM, SPARTACUS, SUPERNATURAL, GOLD RUSH And More!! -- 116 total posts 41 posts
- Wanna smell like the Hulk? What about Cap? Consider yourself a Thunder God or a unisex God of Mischief? -- 71 total posts 40 posts
- HANNA's Saoirse Ronan to boss around seven little people -- 35 total posts 35 posts
- Does ‘SNL’ Rhyme With ‘Deschanel’?? Learn Which SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE Vet Hosts After Sexy Zooey!! -- 35 total posts 34 posts